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CHRISTOPHER R. W. DIETRICH, PHD
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
441 EAST FORDHAM ROAD, DEALY HALL
BRONX, NY 10458
CDIETRICH2@ FORDHAM.EDU / (512)590-5842
Employment
Fordham University
Assistant Professor, The History of U.S. Foreign Relations ▪ September 2012 – present
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses: Understanding Historical Change; The United
States since 1945; The Cold War; American Power in Film and Fiction; Imperialism and
Decolonization: New Debates; U.S. Political and Intellectual History since 1877; The
Vietnam Wars; Major Developments in American Studies; 20th Century U.S. Radicalism;
U.S. Foreign Relations, 1898-present; U.S. Foreign Relations from Vietnam to the War
on Terror; Contemporary European History
Education
University of Texas at Austin
PhD in History ▪ August 2012
Major and Minor Fields: U.S. History, History of Imperialism and
Decolonization
Dissertation Title: The Permanence of Power: The Energy Crisis, Sovereign
Debt, and the Rise of American Neoliberal Diplomacy, 1967-1976
Advisers: Dr. Mark Lawrence, Dr. Michael Stoff
Committee Members: Dr. H. W. Brands, Dr. David Oshinsky, Dr. David
Painter, Dr. Jeremi Suri
MA in History ▪ May 2008
Grinnell College
BA in History and English ▪ May 2001”More
Advisers: José Pablo Silva; Saadi Simawe
Book Manuscripts
Sovereign Rights: Oil Elites, International Capitalism, and the Political Culture of
Decolonization, 1949 to 1979, full manuscript under review at Cambridge University Press.
Companion to the History of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1776 to Present, 3 vols., under contract at
Wiley-Blackwell Press, forthcoming, 2020.
Commercial Empire: The United States and World Oil in the Twentieth Century, proposal under
review at Bloomsbury Press.
Impossible Peace: Ralph Bunche and UN Peacekeeping at the End of Empire and the Rise of the
Cold War, in process.
Articles and Chapters (* denotes peer-review)
* “The United States, National Security, and World Oil since 1945,” in Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of American History, forthcoming.
* “Oil Power and Economic Theology: The United States and the Third World in the Wake
of the Energy Crisis,” in Diplomatic History, forthcoming.
* “Uncertainty Rising: Oil Money and ‘International Terrorism’ in the 1970s,” in The
United States and the Periphery, Bevan Sewall and Maria Ryan, eds., forthcoming, University of
Kentucky Press.
* “Pinochet’s Chile in the Carter and Reagan Administrations,” in American Complicity in
Genocide, eds. Samuel Totten and Herbert Hirsch, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
* “‘First Class Brouhaha’: Henry Kissinger and Oil Power in the 1970s,”in Oil Shock: The
1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacies, Elisabetta Bini, Giovanni Garavini, and Federico
Romero, eds., forthcoming, I.B. Tauris.
* “OPEC and the United States,” commissioned for The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
American History.
“The Hundred-Year Tragedy of American Torture,” in CounterPunch 22: 2 (2015): 9-11.
* “Mossadegh Madness: Oil and Sovereignty in the Anticolonial Community,” Humanity:
An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 6: 1 (Spring
2015): 63-78.
“First Day of Terror,” in The Appendix 2: 4 (July 2014).
* “The U.S. Economy since World II: Unprecedented Growth, Inflation, and Stagflation,”
in Thomas Zeiler and Robert Wright, eds., The Guide to U.S. Economic Policy (Congressional
Quarterly Press, 2014).
* “‘More a Gun at our Head than Theirs’: The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo and the New
Resource Diplomacy,” in Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence, eds. Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon
Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2014), 207-233.
* “‘The Sustenance of Salisbury’ in the Era of Decolonization: The Portuguese Politics of
Neutrality and the Rhodesian Oil Embargo, 1965-1967,” The International History Review
35: 2 (2013): 235-255.
“The Strange Career of the Henry Kissinger Papers,” CounterPunch 20: 2/3 (February
2013): 9-14.
* “‘Arab Oil Belongs to the Arabs’: Natural Resource Sovereignty, Cold War Boundaries,
and the Nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company, 1967-1972,” Diplomacy and
Statecraft 22:3 (September 2011): 450-479.
“The Business in Between: U.S. Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics,” in Perspectives
on History, the Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association 29: 5 (May 2011).
* “‘A Climate of Collaboration’: The Rhodesian Oil Embargo and Portuguese Diplomacy
in Southern Africa, 1965-1967,” Itinerario: The Journal of European Expansion and
Integration 35:1 (March 2011): 197-220, Cambridge University Press.
Fellowships, Grants, and Distinctions
Fordham University, College of Liberal Arts, Faculty Leave Fellowship (Fall 2015)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend, Fordham Nominee
(2014)
Johns Hopkins University, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Fellow, Teacher’s
Workshop (2013)
Fordham University, College of Liberal Arts, First-year Faculty Fellowship (2012-2013)
Yale University, International Security Studies, Smith Richardson Pre-doctoral Fellowship
(2010-2011)
National History Center and the Mellon Foundation, International Summer Seminar on
Decolonization, Fellow (2011)
American Historical Association, Beveridge Research Fellowship (2010)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lawrence Gelfand–Armin Rappaport
Fellowship (2009)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, W. Stull Holt Fellowship (2009)
The Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, Bruton Fellowship (2010)
Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Dissertation Fellowship (2009-2010);
Dora Bonham Prize (2007)
British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, Churchill Fellowship (2009, 2010)
Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Research Fellowship (2009)
The School of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Liberal Arts Graduate Research
Fellowship (2008)
Rotary International, Ambassadorial Fellow, El Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores,
Monterrey, Mexico (2005)
Board of Trustees, Grinnell College, Trustees’ Honor Scholarship (1997-2001)
Papers
“‘Economics is Politics by another Means,” paper at the annual meeting of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2015.
“Oil Elites, State Rights, and the Cold War: The Case of Libya, 1969-1971,” invited paper,
Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tamiment Library, New York University, April
2015.
“The Energy Crisis, Economic Justice, and the Global 1970s,” invited lecture, Humanities
and Global Studies Colloquium, Ramapo University, April 2015.
“‘Demagoguery in the United Nations: The New International Economic Order, 19731975,” paper at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2015.
“OPEC and the Decolonization of International Law, 1959-1972,” invited lecture at the
Center for International and Comparative Law at the Mississippi College School of Law,
October 2014. (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxkYOGyJj8)
“Arab Oil Experts and International Law, 1951-1966,” paper presented at the annual
conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2014.
“Introduction to the New International Economic Order: Roundtable,” invited paper for
“The New International Economic Order and the Global Interregnum of the 1970s,” Remarque
Institute, New York University, Kanderstag, Switzerland, May 2014.
“The Death and Birth of Rights: ‘Economic Emancipation,’ International Politics, and
Africa in the 1970s,” invited lecture, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, April 2014.
“‘The Whip Hand’: Sovereignty, Anti-Colonialism, and International Law, 1950-1971,”
paper invited for the Seminar on Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century, Columbia
University, October 2013.
“Arab Oil Experts and Anti-Colonial Political Culture, 1956-1966” paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, UC-Riverside, November 2013.
“Private Capital as Global Capital,” paper selected for “Framing the Global,” Center for the
Study of Global Change, Indiana University, September 2013.
“Rich Nations, Poor Nations: The Anti-Colonial Origins of the Energy Crisis, 1950-1974,”
invited paper for “Pivotal Year: The 1973 Oil Shock and its Global Significance,” European
University Institute, Florence, Italy, September 2013.
“The Poverty Curtain: Two Critiques of Neoliberalism,” paper presented at the annual
conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2013.
“OPEC and ‘Economic Emancipation,’” 1959-1971,” paper presented at the International
Security Studies Colloquium, Yale University, April 2013.
“‘The End of Decolonization’”: The International Debate over Economic Development,
1964-1975,” paper presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association,
January 2013, co-sponsored by The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
“The UN Conference for Trade and Development and Third World Economic Theory,
1964-1968,” paper presented to the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations, June 2012.
“Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: The Next Generation,” invited
panelist for plenary at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 2012.
“OPEC and the Third World: An Unholy Union?” invited plenary, Humanities Research
Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX, April 2012.
“Neocolonialism in Context,” New Works-in-Progress Series, Institute for Historical Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin, March 2012.
“The Twin Pillars and Unintended Consequences: Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Nixon
Administration, and the Postwar Petroleum Order,” paper accepted at BRISMES annual
conference, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, March 2012.
“In the Wake of Withdrawal: British Decolonization and International Energy Politics,
1967-1971,” paper presented at the International Summer Seminar on Decolonization at the
National History Center, Washington, D.C., July – August 2011.
“The Energy Crisis and the Rise of Neoliberal Diplomacy in the United States,” paper
presented for the Historians of Twentieth-Century United States annual conference, St. Anne’s
College and the Rothermore American Institute, Oxford University, July 2011.
“A Higher Purpose: Oil and Finance in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1973-1979,” paper presented at
the annual conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2011.
“Drill Baby Drill: The Politicization of Alternative Energy Sources, 1973-1982,” paper
accepted for the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History, April
2011.
“The Southern Divide: The Oil Price Crisis and the Breakup of the Global South, 19741977,” paper presented at Africa and Global Politic conferences, The University of Texas at
Austin, March 2011.
“HK is not God: Kissinger and the Energy Crisis, 1973-1976,” paper presented at the
International Security Studies Colloquium, Yale University, March 2011.
“From Tripoli to Teheran: Globalizing the Arab Oil Weapon during the Cold War, 19671971,” paper accepted at the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual conference, San Diego,
California, November 2010.
“‘The Clouds of War are Lined with Silver Dollars’: Petrodollars, the Financing of
Terrorism, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1981,” paper presented at From Cold War to War on
Terror: The United States and the Periphery, The University of Nottingham, September 2010.
“The Libyan Revolution and U.S. Energy Security, 1969-1971,” paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2010.
“True Owners: The New Resource Diplomacy and the Nationalization of the Iraq
Petroleum Company, 1961-1972,” paper presented at Rethinking the Middle East? Values,
Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region, The
British Academy, London, March 2010.
“‘A Long Range Vision’: Japan’s Foreign Oil Policy in the Shokku Period,” paper accepted
at the International Environmental History Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009.
“Initial Vulnerability: The 1967 Tiran Crisis and Oil Embargo,” paper presented at The Cold
War as the Periphery, Mershon Center, Ohio State University, April 18-19, 2008.
“Mobil’s Pegasus Concept and Free Enterprise Individualism: The Idealistic and the
Pragmatic in Company Rhetoric, 1965-1975,” paper presented at The Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2008.
“El Masacre de Tlatelolco en Su Contexto Global,” paper presented at Centro Universitario
Rafael Haller, Tepotzotlán, Mexico, January 2006.
“Peace Corps Dominican Republic and Ideologies of Sustainable Development,” paper
presented at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, November 2003.
Work Experience
Chief of Staff, Campaign Manager, Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (December 2003 –
July 2004), House of Representatives, Judicial Committee, Georgia State Legislature.
Peace Corps, Volunteer (September 2001-October 2003), Community Economic Development
Sector, Esperanza, Valverde, Dominican Republic.
Sports Illustrated for Kids, Intern/Reporter (May-September 2000), Time-Warner, New York,
New York.
American Civil Liberties Union, Legislative Intern (May-September 1999), Boston Chapter.
Reviews, Interviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Op-Eds
Op-Ed, “Ferguson and the International Politics of Shame,” Truthout.org, August 2014.
Review, Samantha Christiansen and Zachary A. Scarlett, eds., The Third World in the Global
1960s (New York: Berghahn, 2013), Peace and Change 39: 3 (July 2014): 424-426.
Op-Ed, “Allende, the Third World, and Neoliberal Imperialism,” Imperial and Global Forum
(June 2014).
Featured Review, “Fifty Shades of Multilateralism,” on Foreign Relations of the United States,
1969-1976, Vol. XXXVI, The Energy Crisis, 1969-1974, Passport (April 2014).
Review, “Oil, Decolonization, and European Integration,” Giuliano Garavani, After Empires:
European Integration, Decolonization, and the Challenge from the Global South 1957-1986,
trans. Richard R. Nybakken (London: Oxford University Press, 2013) and Aurélie Élisa Gfeller,
Building a European Identity: France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74 (New
York: Berghahn, 2013), H-Diplo, February 2014.
Interview, “The International Energy Crisis of the 1970s,” 15 Minute History (January 2014).
Interview, “Colonialism and the 1973 Oil Shock,” European University Institute News
(September 2013).
Op-Ed, “Add Morality to the List of Drone Victims,” CNN, Global Public Square with Fareed
Zakaria, May 2013.
Review, Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black
Freedom beyond America (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Peace and Change 38: 4
(2013): 497-499.
Op-Ed, “Obama’s Drone Doctrine is Nixon’s Vietnam Doctrine,” Informed Comment, February
2013.
Review, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. E-14, The United Nations, HDiplo, December 2012.
Op-Ed, “Historians to Occupy Wall Street: Search for Order,” Not Even Past, October 2011.
Op-Ed, “‘The Virtues and Vices of a Fundamentalist Prophet’: Libyan Oil and Western Arms
Sales in Gaddafi’s First Decade,” Not Even Past, September 2011.
Op-Ed, “A Kissingerian Lesson on Leaks,” Politico, November 2010.
Op-Ed, “Energy and the Future of U.S. Foreign Relations,” Informed Comment, July 2010.
Featured Review, Lloyd Gardner, The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy
from the 1970s to the Present (New York: The Free Press, 2008), Yale Journal of International
Affairs 5: 1 (Winter 2010).
Review, Frederick Logevall and Campbell Craig, America’s Cold War (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2009), Journal of Canadian History 46: 2 (Autumn 2011).
Review, Matthew Hilton, Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009), Itinerario 33: 2 (2010).
Review, Tony Smith, A Pact with the Devil (Routledge, 2007), Peace and Change 34: 3 (July
2009), 359-363.
Encyclopedia of the 1960s: “Lyndon B. Johnson,” “Jimmy Carter,” “John Kenneth Galbraith,”
“Walt Rostow,” and “Ralph Nader,” 2010, ABC-CLIO.
American Espionage, A Historical Encyclopedia: “Intelligence Functions of the Department
of Energy,” 2009, ABC-CLIO.
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: “Historiography,” 2008, ABC-CLIO; Second Edition,
2011, ABC-CLIO.
Encyclopedia of Military History: “Lawrence Eagleburger,” “Oil in the Gulf War,” 2008,
ABC-CLIO.
Service (Committees)
Invited Lecture, “Iran-Contra and the Question of Continuity,” History Day, Fordham
University
Search Committee, History Department, Fordham University (2014-present)
Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Twentieth-Century Politics and Society, Columbia
University (2013 – present)
Invited Lecture, “French Imperialism and the U.S. Intervention in Vietnam,” Parents’ Day,
Fordham University (2014)
Core Curriculum Committee, Fordham University (2013 – present)
Core Curriculum Committee, Assessment Working Group, Fordham University (2013 –
present)
Undergraduate Committee, Digital Humanities Committee, History Department, Fordham
University (2012 – present).
At-Large Representative, Council, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
(2011 – present).
Student Representative, Co-Chair, History Graduate Student Committee, Department of
History, University of Texas at Austin (2006 – 2008).
Board Member, Friends of the Dominican Republic (2011 – 2013).
Control Room, Yale Grand Strategy Simulation (Fall 2010).
Service (Commentary, Peer Review, Prizes)
Peer Review, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Article Manuscript, 2015.
Panel Chair, “Building the Postwar Economic Order,” Annual Meeting of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2015.
Commentary, Irene Gendzier, Boston University, “Who’s Afraid of Oil,” New York University,
Tamiment Library, Center for the Cold War and the United States, November 20, 2014.
Panel Commentary, “Law and the Projection of American Power, 1900-1970,” Annual Meeting
of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2014.
Peer Review, Fordham University Press, Book Manuscript, 2014.
Peer Review, Oxford University Press, Book Manuscript, 2014.
Peer Review, South African Historical Review, Article Manuscript, 2014.
Loomie Prize, Graduate Research, History Department, Fordham University, December 2013.
Paper Commentary, Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut, “Between East and West:
The Contested Politics of Human Rights in Indonesia,” Fordham University, Phi Alpha Theta
Speakers Series, November 2013.
Roundtable Commentary, Neo-Colonialism as History in Latin America, Special Screening of
“Gold Fever” for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Fordham University,
October 2013.
Panel Commentary, “Metropolitan Echoes: Intellectual Relations between Anti-Colonial
Movements and American and European Public Spheres, 1930s-1970s,” Annual Meeting of the
Society of U.S. Intellectual History, UC-Riverside, November 2013.
Peer Review, Latin American Research Review, 2013.
Peer Review, Diplomatic History, 2013.
Panel Commentary, “The Cold War through Third World Eyes: Third World Understandings of
and Policy in the Cold War,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 2013.
Paper Commentary, Ryan Irwin, SUNY-Albany, “After Anarchy: Small States as World
History,” Fordham University, Phi Alpha Theta Speakers Series, April 2013.
Paper Commentary, Amy Offner, University of Pennsylvania, “Cold War Anti-Poverty
Programs in Colombia and the United States,” Center for the United States and the Cold War,
New York University, March 2013.
Paper Commentary, Tanya Harmer, London School of Economics, “Piecing the Past Back
Together: A Multidimensional Approach to Writing the Cold War in Latin America,” Fordham
University, Phi Alpha Theta Speakers Series, November 2012.
Paper Commentary, Barry Carr, Fordham University, “Rebels, Revolutionaries and Exiles:
Tracing the Networks and Diasporas of Transnational Activists in the Greater Circum-Caribbean,
1918-1940,” Fordham University, Visiting Lecture, October 2012.
Memberships
The American Historical Association
The Organization of American Historians
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Languages
English, Spanish: Fluency
Portuguese: Advanced Reading; Intermediate Writing and Speaking
French, Italian: Intermediate Reading
References
Available upon request.